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Carry the Kettle, Assiniboine Chief

Carry the Kettle's birthplace is unknown, but it is assumed it was somewhere on the Prairies. He received his name at the age of six, when he wandered from home and become lost. After several days he was found hungry but not thirsty, as he had wandered away carrying a kettle filled with water from a spring. Carry the Kettle was a noted runner and after the historical Cypress Hills Massacre of 1873, he became a military scout with the United States Calvary Forces campaigning against the Sioux. Following the death of his brother, who had the name of 'the man-who-took-the-coat', Carry the Kettle became Chief in 1891 and moved his people to a reserve near Sintaluta, Saskatchewan. Carry the Kettle lived to be 107 years old and died peacefully on his reserve in 1923. He was the last of the hereditary Chiefs of his band.

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